Film commentary: Rain and Fish
A poetic film for children on the need for boredom, that time so necessary for children's development.Questioning the film: Rain and Fish
Understanding the story, the theme, expressing one's sensitivity and exercising one's critical mind."Rain and Fish" was chosen by Anne-Marie Filho, honorary inspector of the French education authority, as an example to illustrate how to question a film.
The organisation of these reflections and their development will necessarily make it possible to achieve the objectives set for the analysis and understanding of the meaning, which remain identical in both methods; the interest of this second approach is to create the conditions for the gradual acquisition of a method, of autonomy, including by making the pupils gradually aware of the existence of invariants in their observations.
While adapting to their age and level, it is the teacher's responsibility to invite the pupils to reflect on the strategies they use to question, analyse and understand, so that they can criticise them, assimilate them, and be able to appropriate them, reuse them and develop them.
The file addresses the following points based on the short film "Rain and fish":
- Keeping the objective of image education.
- From the mobilisation of personal experience to that of knowledge.
- Exploration.
- Narration.Pitch, summary, synopsis.
- The place, the setting.
- The characters.
- The action.
- The theme.
- The soundtrack.
- The film as a network.
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Created with the support of the French Ministry of Education and the CNC.Viewing of the film with the family, educational activities with parents at home and with teachers in class.
Sequence on the theme of disappearance (French) (Cycle 2 and 3)
Pedagogical activities proposed by Ona Ya from Ona Ya's blog based on the film Rain and Fish.
Making a fresco (Plastic arts) (Cycle 2 and 3)
Pedagogical activities proposedby Valérie from the blog Val 10 based on the film Rain and Fish.
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Theme
ImaginationGenre and keywords
Contemplative, rain, waiting, fish, immaginaryRecommended age
3 years.Duration
4 min 47 s.Title
Rain and FishDirector
Reina KanemitsuMusic
Yusaku MasudaSound design
Takuji OeProduction
Tokyo University of theArtsin 2010, Japan
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